Knockout heard the news, he was upset, no, that's an understatement, he is pissed, spark broken and numb, his conjunx is dead and Dreadwing didn't even care to bring his body back! Breakdowns signal isn't picking up at all either, so Knockout can't even find his damn body himself. Oh, if those squishes got their hands on his body, he'd lose it. 

He was staring at the map in the controls room, he had no clue where Megatron, Dreadwing, Starscream or anyone else was and frankly he didn't care, he just wished to have something of his conjunx and yet he had nothing, he heard the sound of peds behind him and when he turned he saw Soundwave who seemed to be looking at him but he could just be there to do one of his many jobs.

Soundwave stopped in front of him and stared at him for an uncomfortable amount of time before Knockout finally gave in and spoke up. "What is it, Soundwave? Is there something you need from me?" Soundwave didn't say anything. Instead, an audio recording played from the mute bot, and Knockout recognized the voice as the Autobots two-wheeler Arcee. "Ratchet, I need a ground bridge ASAP; we have an injured bot here who needs medical attention now." The recording ended after that, and Knockout didn't know how to feel.

"What are you suggesting with this Soundwave?" Knockout asked while waiting for a response from Soundwave. It took a moment, then a clipped version of the recording played. "Injured bot here." Knockout knew what Soundwave was suggesting with this, but he was going to deny it. There is no way those Autobots would take a Decepticon. Was there?

"Soundwave, go do your job. I don't need this... This pity." Knockout mumbled the last part as he stood there. He didn't want his hopes up, and he definitely didn't need this charity. He decided to walk back to his medbay, being mildly annoyed but mostly stressed with many thoughts running through his processor.

He saw serval vehicons as he walked, but he didn't give them much attention as his thoughts were in a different place right now. Grief was hitting him, but he was refusing to allow it to take over as that would mean he is weak and you can't have a weak Decepticon that would get you killed just, just like Breakdown.

Normally, I would have made this longer, but I think this works better as a shorter chapter, especially with what I wanted to show for this.